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| 794 |
| | The Japanese imperial court moves to a new capital city - Kyoto | |
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| 796 |
| | Alcuin leaves the palace school at Aachen to become abbot of the monastery of Tours | |
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| c. 800 |
| | The use of zero, essential in practical mathematics, is now familiar in India and is adopted in Baghdad | |
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| c. 800 |
| | The style of architecture of early medieval Europe is Romanesque, in the sense of deriving from Roman examples | |
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| c. 800 |
| | Scholars in Baghdad begin translating Greek and Syriac texts into Arabic | |
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| c. 800 |
| | The Ismailis become a separate Shi'a sect when they dispute the succession after the death of the sixth imam | |
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| c. 800 |
| | The script known as Carolingian minuscule (basis of the modern roman typeface) is developed by Alcuin and his scribes at the monastery of Tours | |
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| c. 800 |
| | Batán Grande, in northern Peru, becomes a great pilgrimage centre in the Sican culture | |
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| c. 800 |
| | Nestorian beliefs become the orthodoxy of the Christian community in Persia, spreading from there to India and China | |
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| c. 800 |
| | The luxury of Baghdad, under the caliph Harun al-Rashid, is evident in the Thousand and One Nights | |
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